The Cramer-Rao lower bound of $e^{-(x-\theta)}\exp(-e^{-(x-\theta)})$

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Let $f(x;\theta ) = e^{-(x_i-\theta)}exp(-e^{-x_i-\theta)})$

How do I find the Cramer-Rao lower bound?

the log likelihood is

$l(\theta;x)=\Sigma_{i=1}^n{[-(x_i-\theta )-e^{-(x_i-\theta )}]}$

and taking the derivative of the log likelihood gives:

$\frac{\delta}{\delta\theta}l(\theta;x)=n+\Sigma_{i=1}^n[e^{-(x_i-\theta)}]$

Taking the second derivative gives:

$\frac{\delta^2}{\delta\theta^2}l(\theta;x)=\Sigma_{i=1}^n{e^{-(x_i-\theta)}}$

And the expected value of this is:

$$E[\frac{\delta^2}{\delta\theta^2}l(\theta;x)]=n\int\limits_{-\infty}^\infty \exp(-e^{-(x-\theta)}-2(x-\theta)) \ dx$$

Am I on the right track?